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Congressman Garamendi supports a comprehensive and bipartisan approach to modernizing our nation’s broken and antiquated immigration system. Garamendi is proud to stand with Dreamers and supports a pathway to citizenship for all DACA-eligible immigrants. Garamendi also supports commonsense border security provisions that prevent violent criminals and individuals that seek to wreak havoc from entering our country. He also believes that a comprehensive solution much provide a long-term, reliable workforce for California’s agricultural economy.

Garamendi supported a commonsense, bipartisan immigration reform bill that was passed by the U.S. Senate in 2013. Sadly, House leadership refused to bring the bill to the floor and wouldn’t even allow a hearing on the legislation. Today, Garamendi is working with his colleagues in the House to force a vote on bipartisan immigration reform that enhances border security and provides a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers.

WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, Davis, Yuba City), a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, announced that he will be joining over thirty Democrats from the House of Representatives to tour detention facilities near McAllen, Texas on Saturday, June 23. The tour is being hosted by Congressmembers Filamon Vela (D-TX) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX).

Speaking publicly against separating children from their parents who crossed the United States border illegally isn’t something Vacaville resident Michael Kitzes is taking lightly.

“I struggled with it for awhile,” he said about going public in opposition to how the children are being treated. “They’re ripping these children away from families.”

Kitzes, a Vacaville Unified School board member and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for 28 years, added that it might be easy to call this an immigration issue, but it’s so much more than that.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House easily approved a bipartisan $1.3 trillion spending bill Thursday that pours huge sums into Pentagon programs and domestic initiatives ranging from building roads to combatting the nation’s opioid abuse crisis, but left Congress in stalemate over shielding young Dreamer immigrants from deportation and curbing surging health insurance premiums.